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Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13M
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$22MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$676kHousing & Shelter$627kYouth Development$527kArts & Culture$256kAnimals$220kHealth$162kOther$0
02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
  • $250k+5 grants · $13M
$56,599
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
R FOUNDATION$3,161,632
THORNTON FOUNDATION$3,143,632
MAJN FOUNDATION$3,143,632
AZ3 CHARITABLE FUND$2,795,500
DADIVA FOUNDATION$366,132
MUSEUM OF THE YELLOWSTONE$56,599
WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS$20,000
WOMEN OF THE WORLD$20,000
ART ACCESS$20,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$18,000
MANSHIP CHARITABLE FUND$18,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PEACE HOUSE: $75k → 5%FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT: $25k → 10%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $1k → 12%UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $10k → 8%UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $500k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $15k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $10k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $10k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $20k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $393k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $325k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $282k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 19 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +60% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
29

Total granted

$22M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+60%

Still filing today

79%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +1%
  • TI
    THE INN BETWEEN
    2× · 2018–2019 · $515k · revenue +114% · 43% of their budget
  • SH
    SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS
    2× · 2017–2019 · $415k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • SL
    SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • WA
    WORK ACTIVITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $120k · revenue -22%
  • WU
    WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
2
Utah Geological Foundation
—
3
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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4
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
5
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
6
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

—
7
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Utah Swat Inc
—
9
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

—
10
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
11
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

—
12
Utah Humanities Council

Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Futures; the most unlike its peers is Dadiva Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THORNTON FOUNDATION: $5,518,945 · OtherTHORNTON FOUNDATIONMAJN FOUNDATION: $5,518,945 · OtherMAJN FOUNDATIONAZ3 CHARITABLE FUND: $2,795,500 · OtherAZ3 CHARITABLE FUNDDADIVA FOUNDATION: $2,741,445 · OtherDADIVA FOUNDATION+22 more: $1,361,188 · Other+22 moreR FOUNDATION: $5,536,945 · PhilanthropyR FOUNDATIONNeighborhood House Association: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN: $514,685 · Human ServicesPeace House Inc: $75,000 · Human Services+6 more: $97,000 · Human ServicesSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $415,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $125,000 · AnimalsGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $94,625 · AnimalsHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · AnimalsBALLET WEST: $76,000 · Arts & CultureArt Access: $63,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $40,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWasatch Homeless Health Care: $75,000 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic: $50,000 · HealthALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE SHARING PLACE: $10,000 · HealthYOUTH FUTURES: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $4,600 · Health
Other$17,936,023Philanthropy$5,536,945Human Services$1,686,685Youth Development$424,500Animals$229,625Arts & Culture$199,000Health$172,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetR FOUNDATION: $5,536,945 over 2y, 33% of budgetDADIVA FOUNDATION: $2,741,445 over 2y, 65% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $1,000,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $514,685 over 2y, 43% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $415,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $125,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWORK ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $120,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $94,625 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $82,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBALLET WEST: $76,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPeace House Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $70,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetArt Access: $63,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetWomen of the World: $60,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $48,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS: $40,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $40,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEnglish Skills Learning Center: $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $12,989 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHARING PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHERN UTAH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITYINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREEN URBAN LUNCH BOX: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT64.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Hemingway Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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